Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 06, 2019

You kind of went too far with the provolone.

Failed to use the code words: donate for my college admission to Stanford, Yale, USC, or one of the other Ivy League university

Isn’t interesting how there are only a three “Pearls Before Swine” character who are actually in the Chinese Zodiac? It’s just Pig, Rat, and Goat. There’s hardly a dog, snake, tiger, monkey, rooster, horse, rabbit, nor dragon.

Pig, everything will be fulfilled to you when the pigs fly.

Pig, you should KNOW IT DOSEN’T MEAN that

“Year of the pig” means pigs pay for everything, all year long!

It’s a shame that you can’t pick your own animal. Being a pig or rat your entire life would kind of suck.

At least he called you ‘Sir.’

Oh well, was worth a try, Pig!

It means people will be eating a lot of pork, bacon, and ham.

That’s a pretty neat way to look at it, Pig. Let me go try my luck with my family – it’s my year after all!

Wonder how Jef the cyclist’s superiority would do in Shanghai’s Rush Hour??

Pig should be thankful that it isn’t associated with Eat More Pork!

Year of the Punster…

Nice try Pig ! …… Croc Power!

Me like ZEBAS!

I thought it was “Chinese embassy” spam calling pig about “expiring visa” or “important mail”.

The crocs have delusional self fantasies of being dragons.

Just wait until “Year of the Cock”.

I believe in honoring the Year of the Pig with a nice rack o’ ribs!

Big man, pig man

Ha ha charade you are

Problem is: no pig has ever asked before!

The Chinese already buy our national debt, so why not our personal debt? They’re not much of a cheese culture, though.

It’s the year of char siu bao.

I shudder to think what will happen in “The Year of the Rat!” “I #%&*%$ WANT A BIG-SCREEN TV AND 5,000 GALLONS OF BEER. RIGHT. %÷×#$& NOW!!!”

Let’s celebrate the year by eating a lot of pigs!

This is not the Chinese Take Away!!!

I was born in 1981. I think that makes me a rooster.

Don’t get a Tesla! If you do there is NO PLACE to service it. So pray that it works perfectly forever or you’ll be walking. But hey, walking is good for you and the environment.

His mistake is confusing the item with the category. He’s a pig, not the pig concept.

OMG: Pastis could have been waiting for as long as 12 years to make this joke. I can imagine it of him.

Does announcing the comic strip in which you appear constitute “breaking the fourth wall”?

They were thinking of inviting him for dinner.

I was born in the Year of the Dragon. I understand (unlike Pig) that it symbolic, not literal.

But I applaud Pig’s initiative in calling the Chinese Embassy. and displaying his ignorance. It takes a special kind of naiveté to do that!